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Search is on for Connecticut senior poet laureate
Entries are now being accepted for regional winners in the 18th annual National Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older, from which the Connecticut Senior Poet Laureate will be chosen. The entry deadline is June 30.
Winning poems of state senior poets laureate will be named in July, advancing to the final rounds of competition, from which the winner of $500 and the 2010 National Senior Poet Laureate title will be announced around September 1. Poems must be in English.
Co-sponsors Vera-Jane Goodin Schultz and Wanda Sue Parrott founded the contest, administered by Amy Kitchener’s Angels Without Wings Foundation, in 1993.
The 2009 winners can be seen in Golden Words Anthology, along with rules for the 2010 Senior Poets Laureate Contest, at www.amykitchenerfdn. org
